Garrison Keillor’s “The Writer’s Almanac” reminds us today to wish YouTube a happy third birthday. The domain was registered for the first time February 15, 2005. It made its public debut at the end of the year and by mid-2006 was one of the fastest growing sites online.
A point to ponder this Friday: The 2008 presidential election might have been a vastly different race except for the August day in 2006 when Virginia Senator George Allen, considered one of the leading contenders for the Republican presidential nomination, looking straight into the camera held by a 20-year-old staffer, S.R. Siddarth, of his opponent
Happy Birthday YouTube!
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